Professor Joy Damousi
Head of the School of Historical Studies
- Telephone:
- (+61 3) 8344 5961
- Email:
- j.damousi@unimelb.edu.au
- Fax:
- (+61 3) 8344 7894
- Location:
- Room 311 West
History, John Medley Building
The University of Melbourne VIC 3010
Academic Profile (click on the link for more information)
Biography
- Qualifications:
- BA Hons (Latrobe); PhD, (ANU)
- Professional Societies:
- Fellow, Australian Academy of Humanities (2004); Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia (2004)
- Editorial Boards:
- Member of Australian Historical Studies; Labour History; Gender and History (UK); Women’s History Review (UK)
- Prizes:
- 2006 Ernest Scott History Prize for Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia, (UNSW Press)
Projects in Progress:
- Greek War Stories: Transnationalism, Ethnicity and Memory
- Democracy, Public Speech and Women's Suffrage
- Psychoanalysis and Politics: Histories of Psychoanalysis and Political Repression
- Viola Bernard: Social reform, social activism and psychoanalysis
Research interests
Australian cultural history; feminist and women’s history; memory and war; history of emotions; the self and psychoanalysis; football and popular culture; histories of speech, accent and elocution; intellectual historySelected publications
Single-authored Books- Joy Damousi, Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia, 1840-1940, Cambridge University Press, London, (2010)
- Joy Damousi, Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia, UNSW Press, (2005)
- Joy Damousi, Living With the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-War Australia, Cambridge University Press, (2001)
- Joy Damousi, The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia, Cambridge University Press, (1999)
- Joy Damousi, Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia, Cambridge University Press, (1997)
- Joy Damousi, Women Come Rally: Communism, Socialism and Gender in Australia 1890-1955, Oxford University Press, (1994)
- Joy Damousi and John Cash, Footy Passions, UNSW Press, Sydney, (2009)
- Joy Damousi and Mariano Ben Plotkin (eds), The Transnational Unconscious: Essays in the History of Psychoanalysis and Transnationalism, Palgrave Macmillan, London, (2009)
- Joy Damousi and D. Deacon (eds), Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound, ANU EPress, Canberra, (2007)
- Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds (eds), History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis, Melbourne University Press, (2003)
- Joy Damousi and Katherine Ellinghaus (eds), Citizenship, Women and Social Justice, University of Melbourne Monographs, (1999)
- Joy Damousi and Marilyn Lake (eds), Gender and War: Australians At War in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge, (1995)
- Joy Damousi, 'The Travelling Psychoanalyst: Andrew Peto and Transnational Explorations into Psychoanalysis in Budapest, Melbourne and New York’, in Joy Damousi and Mariano Plotkin (eds), The Transnational Unconscious: Essays in the History of Psychoanalysis and Transnationalism, Palgrave Macmillan, London, (2008)
- Joy Damousi, ‘Eyes Left: Psychiatrist Reginald Ellery and the Soviet Dream’, Sheila Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Rasmussen (eds), Political Tourists: Australian Travellers to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, (2008), pp. 170-188
- Joy Damousi, ‘The Responsibility of Empire’: War and Commemoration’, in Deryck Schreuder and Stuart Ward (eds) The Oxford Companion to the British Empire: Australia, London, Oxford University Press, (2008), pp. 288-311
- Joy Damousi, ‘”The Australian has a lazy way of talking’: Australian Character and Accent 1920s-1940s’ in Joy Damousi and Desley Deacon (eds) Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound, ANU Press, (2007), pp. 83-96
- Joy Damousi, ‘”The Slowly Changing Status of Women”: Women’s Studies and Gender Studies’, in Fay Anderson and Stuart Macintyre (eds) Life of the Past: The Discipline of History at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, University of Melbourne, (2006), pp.321-338.
- Joy Damousi and John Cash, ‘Fathers and Daughters at Play’, in Matthew Nicholson and Rob Hess (eds), Football Fever: Moving the Goalposts, Melbourne, Maribyrnong Press, (2006), pp.219-228
- Joy Damousi, ‘Working Widowed Mothers and Welfare Inspectors in Victoria in the 1920s and 1930s’, in Patricia Grimshaw, John Murphy and Belinda Probert (eds), Double Shift, Melbourne, Circa, (2005), pp.103-117
- Joy Damousi, ‘The Emotions of History’, in Stuart Macintyre (ed), The Historian’s Conscience: Australian Historians on the Ethics of History, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, (2004), pp.28-39
- Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds, 'Psychoanalysis, Histories and Identities’, in Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds, (eds), , History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, (2003), pp.1-14
- Joy Damousi, 'A History of Dreams: Modernity, Masculinity and Inner Life in the 1920s and 1930s', in Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds (eds), History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis, Melbourne University Press, (2003), pp.26-35
- Joy Damousi, ‘'Disorder, Invasion and "Irrationality" in the Federal Fanchise of 1902' in John Chesterman and David Philips (ed), Selective Democracy: Race, Gender and the Australian Vote, Melbourne Publishing Group, (2003), pp.60-70
- Joy Damousi, ‘The State and the Widow: Pension Debates in Inter-War Australia', in Lynne Haney and Lisa Pollard (eds), Families of a New World: Gender, Politics and State Development in a Global Context, Routledge, New York, (2003), pp.99-118
- Joy Damousi, 'Making the Ordinary Extraordinary in the 1950s: Explorations of Interiority and Australian Cultural History', in Hsu-Ming Teo and Richard White (eds), Cultural History in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, (2003), pp. 214-225
- Joy Damousi (with Freda Freiberg), 'Engendering the Greek: The Shifiting Representations of Greek Identity in Australian Cinema' in Lisa French (ed), Womenvision: Women and the Moving Image in Australia, Damned Publishing, Melbourne, (2003), pp. 149-160
- Joy Damousi, 'Margaret Cuthbertson, Factory Inspection and the Political Lives of Working Women, 1890-1914' in Mark Hearn and Greg Patmore (eds), Working the Nation: Working Life and Federation: 1890-1914, Pluto Press, Sydney, (2001), pp. 249-263
- Joy Damousi, ‘A History of Australian Voice and Speech in Russell Ward’s The Australian Legend and Beyond', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol.10, no.2, 2008, pp.155-170
- Joy Damousi, 'An absence of anything masculine: Vida Goldstein and women's public speech', in Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 79, no.2, 2008, pp. 251-264
- ‘Australian Medical Intellectuals and the Great War’, in Australian Journal of Politics and History, September 2007
- ‘ "The Filthy American Twang”: Elocution, the Advent of American “Talkies” and Australian Cultural Identity’, in American Historical Review, April 2007
- Joy Damousi and John Cash, ‘Inside Footy Mania', in Meanjin, vol. 63, no.4, 2004, pp. 218-225
- Joy Damousi, ‘Agnes Milne: The Factory Inspector as Political Agitator, 1896-1906’, in Labour History, no.87, November 2004, pp. 11-30
- Joy Damousi, ‘History Matters: The Politics of Grief and Injury in Australian History', in Australian Historical Studies, no.118, 2002, pp. 100-112
- Joy Damousi, ‘Writing Gender into History and History in Gender: Creating A Nation and Australian Historiography', in Gender and History, November 1999, pp. 612-624
- Joy Damousi, ‘Private Loss, Public Mourning: Motherhood, Memory and Grief During the Inter-War Years', in Women's History Review, vol.8, no.2, June 1999, pp. 347-360
Supervision
Recent PhD Completions- Terri Grote, Anti-Feminism as a Social Movement in Victoria, (2008)
- Matthew Klugman, Loves, Hopes & Anxieties: Suffering and Joy in the Seasonal Lives of Australian Football Followers, (2008)
- Michele Matthews, Survivors, Schemes, Samaritans and Shareholders: The Impact of the Great Depression on Bendigo and District, 1925-1935 (2007)
- Jenny Wajensberg, Looking for Home: Reconstructions of Former Jewish Citizens of Bialystok, Poland (2007)
- Danielle Thornton, Factory Girls: Class, Gender, Activism and the Making of a Female Working Class? Australia and Britain Compared, 1880-1929 (2007)
- Sarah Pinto, Emotional Histories: Contemporary Australian Historical Fictions, (2007)
- Belinda Sweeney, “Her Brain was Affected": Discourses about Women in Prostitution in Australia and the United States, 1885-1935, (2006)
- Rebecca Aitzen, "Like Gefilte Fish Out of Water”: Reading Jewish Femininity in Australia, (2006)
- Jennifer Pullman, Playing the Game: Cricket, the MCG and Change in Colonial Self-Image, 1860-1900, (2005)
- Leigh Boucher, Unsettled Men: Settler Colonialism, Whiteness and Masculinity in Victoria 1851 – 1886, (2005)